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The Hines and Scott are the only two titles I don't already own, so don't see any need for this. The original config had Sam Rivers - Streams, and a John Klemmer. Sorry to see those gone.

Which is really strange that M'Boom would make it to CD and this one, far superior, wouldn't.

The best part of the Bridgewater/Pope Roach groups for me was Tyrone Brown. He is a beast on bass, also a gracious guy when I met him. Pope and Brown, along with Eddie Green and Sherman Ferguson, made up Catalyst, a great early 70's Philly group. Brown played with my friend Ruth Naomi Floyd for awhile. He was really good in and of himself, but the right bass player for what she does has proven to be a guy named Matthew Parrish. Bobby Zankel, Bryan Carrott, and James Weidman have all played major roles in her concerts and recordings at different times. Zankel at first clashed with her so badly in musical terms, but was able to adapt beautifully over time. Weidman was her musical director for awhile, and did really nice work for her. I've never been big on either of the Bridgewater brothers, though I consider Dee Dee a major artist, but Roach obviously liked what Cecil brought to the table. Pope is what he is, take it or leave it, but again, Roach seemed to appreciate him. Billy Harper is, of course, an impossible act to follow anyways.

I love this one, so glad to have it.

My CD collection loves Ari Brown, I have several he plays on, as a leader and in the Ritual Trio. I agree that he should get a lot more love, as should Andrew White for that matter. Brown's playing on that track is so mature, I just assumed it must be the older White, who I thought was a good bit older. I only picked up on Brown in this century, so need to go see what he was doing in the 70's and 80's. As far as the Roach Columbia, you would think that at least it would have come out on CD in Japan, but no. I also love that Abrams, actually have it, but missed ID'ing it. I have a whole lot of Parker in the house, he is a monster.

Jack Walrath - Master of Suspense CD. 1987 Blue Note. With K.Garrett/C. Jefferson/Turre/James Williams/Cox/Burrage. Mint condition. $20 shipped in USA or best reasonable offer or interesting trade. PM or email john.felser@verizon.net if interested, thx.

"I Got You Babe" and the rest of their good 60's work was on Atco. The Caeser and Cleo singles were on Vault and Reprise. The excellent 60's Cher solo stuff was on Imperial.

Yeah, the Ertegun's Jazz stuff was on Atlantic (and, briefly, Embryo), not Atco. Atco was for Coaster's records (And then Vanilla Fudge albums).

One of the great Robert Christgau album reviews (though, from what I remember, I can't stand the album itself): The Insect Trust: Hoboken Saturday Night [Atco, 1970]Thomas Pynchon, Louis "Moondog" Hardin, and an unidentified child (who else would say "busketty" for "spaghetti"?) are among the guest composers, Elvin Jones and an unidentified child among the guest musicians. Former president James Garfield makes a cameo appearance. Vocalist Nancy Jeffries applies her tobacco voice to a feminist lyric called "Trip on Me" that I recommend to Janis Joplin. The blues scholars in the group have been listening to a lot of Arabic and Eastern European music lately, but this doesn't stop Elvin Jones from sounding just like Elvin Jones. In short, these passionate humanists also sound friendly and have come up with a charming, joyous, irrepressibly experimental record. And every experiment works. A

Correct, they went to the post season five times 1976-1983, five times 2007-2011, and three times (1915, 1950, 1993) apart from those two eras. And that's going back to like 1876. We still recognize (but don't celebrate) "Chico Ruiz day" here. http://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/september-21-1964-chico-ruiz-steals-home-begin-phillies-collapse

Glad you came out of it, but depending what it was, your worst may be ahead. Prayers and best wishes out to you.

Not exactly a glorious era for them. Carlton in '72 notwithstanding.

Wish I'd realized that 30 years ago (and wish I still had my baseball cards from when I was a kid).

The Hoffman forum is where I learned that every issue of every title ever released is a rare collectors item. Out of curiosity, what is it about this issue of the title that makes it so desirable? That being asked, this is my favorite Dire Straits release. I never really liked them much after this, don't need to ever hear Brothers in Arms or any of the subsequent releases again. Don't want my MTV no mo.

Doesn't start until August 1!

It's on Universal. Bear Family would never roll with a cherry-picked set than completeness. That being said, nice price, and they were one of the very best, and one of the most underrated British Invasion groups. "Needles and Pins" is the British Invasion to me more than any other record by anyone (yes, even that other group).

That's a great buy on the Monterey Pop set, which is a 60's cultural landmark (and utterly enjoyable).

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Up. still available.

Hot opinions and wild guesses r' us. I'm in, thx.

Well, it would actually be Impulse at 55 now. Maybe they'll put stickers over the 50's or something.

Appreciate everything and agree with much of what you have to say about WR/Vitous. But on this oddball little throwaway point, I have to say that I LOVE the group Brian Wilson worked with around the time of completing 'Smile'. Darian Sahanaja is brilliant in his work with Wilson (and his other group, the Wondermints, are pretty great), and the other members really "get" the music. 'Pet Sounds' and 'Smile' never had much to do with the Beach Boys apart from Wilson anyways, except as supplemental vocalists, and Sahanaia, Jeffrey Foskett, Scott Bennett, and Taylor Mills are stunning in their vocalizing with (and for) Wilson on the completed 'Smile'. The whole thing is a major miracle, both that it got done at all, and that it is as great as it is (especially the second movement). And one of the all-time great human redemption stories. No regrets here about it. I miss the idea (though not the 2004 reality) of Carl Wilson singing on it, but not of Mike Love, who hated it anyways.

Me too!

I can find homes for Derek Bailey CD's and the like, no need to avoid them in my package. Very happy with what you send me, enjoy trading some of them with other board members.

I agree with all of that. Count me in. And the way the B.G.O. rolls, that may well be their plan, provided all four titles fit on two CD's.